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  1. Re:Slashnot on Music Labels Charge Too Much For Microsoft · · Score: 1
    From looking at the timestamps. Each time S'not has posted a "mod parent up" post it's come a few minutes after the Goo post. So even if somehow it is two people, Goo must be posting, then yelling out "Hey S'not, come see what I wrote! It's insightful as all get out! You should write that!"

    But I'm taking the don'ts.

  2. Re:That's Funny on HBO Attacking BitTorrent · · Score: 1
    I know rip-off'rs stretch logic to justify, but "the sky"? That's too far for logic at all.

    It's not quite too far, but he's better not go any further. The sky's the limit.

  3. Re:And here comes the bad analogies. on HBO Attacking BitTorrent · · Score: 1
    the post I responded to equated DLing TV-shows with stealing and shoplifting cheese.

    Sorry, I didn't properly follow the thread. We're in complete agreement regarding the abuse of the word stealing.

  4. Re:And here comes the bad analogies. on HBO Attacking BitTorrent · · Score: 1
    Please stop equating these to fundamental different things.

    I don't think that was the point he was making. I took it that he was simply asserting that people sampling one's wares was good for business, assuming the wares were of sufficient quality.

  5. Re:Gracias! on Music Industry Threatens to Pull Plug on Apple · · Score: 1
    Well, it was just me being pedantic, your Spanish is excellent :).

    Well, thanks. I don't have any formal training though, so there are some pretty big gaps. And I really did appreciate you telling me about the a.

  6. Re:Facts on the profitability of online sales. on Music Labels Charge Too Much For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Yes, I think you're right. Well now that he's been "outed," I wonder if we'll see him again, at least using that account.

  7. Re:Gracias! on Music Industry Threatens to Pull Plug on Apple · · Score: 1
    In Spanish you just say "ganar por negocio" you do not use the preposition "a"

    Thanks. I thought about it when I wrote it, and wasn't sure. It sounded more "complete" with the a. I have about five years of Spanish, and still have a lot to learn.

  8. Re:Apple gets 4 cents on every 99 cent download on Music Industry Threatens to Pull Plug on Apple · · Score: 1
    mi ortografía en Inglés apesta, solo acepto críticas si están escritas en Español

    Una cosita, nada más. En inglés, a ganar por negocío no es win, es earn.

    If my spanish stinks, I only accept criticism written in English. ;-)

  9. Re:Facts on the profitability of online sales. on Music Labels Charge Too Much For Microsoft · · Score: 1
    ..or forgot to log in as someone else

    Wow. Nice detective work.

  10. Re:Facts on the profitability of online sales. on Music Labels Charge Too Much For Microsoft · · Score: 1
    How can you request to mod yourself up

    I think he forgot to check the Post Anonymously box.

  11. Re:Oddities in the article. on Airbus A380 Under Fire · · Score: 1
    If you are preforming "moderate activity" (say screaming your head off because you are are scared stupid) it drops to 30 and 18 seconds (35 and 40 thousand ft, respectively.) Even 30 seonds isn't a lot of time. You need to recognize that there is a problem, identify the problem, and correct it, all in that time, with impared cognitive abilities due to hypoxia.

    Well, ok, but even while screaming, when that mask drops down in front of face I'd manage to put it on (and well before my head detaches.)

  12. Re:Comfortable Seating?! on Neiman Marcus Offers First Moller Skycar For Sale · · Score: 1
    Did you read the blurb? 28 MPG.

    Well, TFA doesn't say 28. It says "environmentally-friendly 21 miles per gallon on alcohol."

  13. Re:If you use BitTorrent and would like to help... on BitTorrent Gets $8.75M From Venture-Capital Firm · · Score: 1
    The term ad-supported implies spyware or adware.

    Silly me. And I would have thought spyware meant software that, ya know, spied on you. So anything with ads is spyware?

  14. Re:If you use BitTorrent and would like to help... on BitTorrent Gets $8.75M From Venture-Capital Firm · · Score: 1
    So now I can download spyware for free? Wow.

    How do you infer spyware from what he wrote?

  15. long-term business on RIAA Suit Rejected With Prejudice · · Score: 1

    I can't think of an example where suing children was a long-term successful strategy. I could be wrong, but perhaps it's time they reconsidered how they go about running their business.

  16. Re:I dont get it... on Thoughts on the Space Elevator · · Score: 1
    You never sent that portable teleporter I ordered!

    Sorry, it went to the wrong place.

  17. Re:Surdo? on Nintendo Revolution Controller Revealed · · Score: 1
    Makes it tough on left handed players.

    Never mind. The first picture made it look like it's off to the side, but now I see that it's in the middle.

  18. Surdo? on Nintendo Revolution Controller Revealed · · Score: 1
    A large "A" button sits in the prime spot under your thumb on the face of the controller, with a "B" trigger on the back of the unit for your index finger.

    Makes it tough on left handed players. Even if they make one, you'd have to take it with you when visiting your less fortunate friends.

  19. Re:This holds true on Perl Best Practices · · Score: 1
    I was told the same thing about APL 25 years ago.

    APL looks like a cat walked across the keyboard.

  20. Re:But are users sufficiently secure? on Ready For the Big Mac Virus? · · Score: 1
    I'm perfectly willing to believe that the Mac makes you go through some sort of hoops before executing arbitrary attached content.

    Yes, it does. And if the application has never run before, it will tell you that, too. So even if somehow you get tricked into thinking you're running, say, Word or Excel or Safari, you can still stop it from executing.

  21. Re:I believe you missed the point of the grandpare on Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving · · Score: 1
    My definition of "fitness"

    Well you don't get to define it. Evolution does. You can maybe look back afterward and see what it was, but that's about it.

  22. Re:evolution is _slow_? on Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving · · Score: 1
    there is a hug problem with cockroaches.

    That's odd. You'd think it would be easy, what with them having six arms and all.

  23. Re:Presentation on Berners-Lee Says Internet Will Make Kids Creative · · Score: 2, Funny
    We all know Al Gore invented teh interweb!

    Good one! Say, have you heard about that "All your base" stuff yet? It's a hoot.

  24. Re:On the other hand... on Uneducated IT Managers, and How to Deal? · · Score: 1
    I was self-employed for two years, and boy was my boss a turkey!

    Maybe so, but I'll bet you got to be employee of the month a lot.

  25. Re:Favourite bit on How I Failed the Turing Test · · Score: 1
    Why do you like music? (Okay, you have less than 10 seconds to answer).

    It's got a good beat and it's easy to dance to. I give it a thirty-five.